The Pamlico Sound is too shallow to hide a submarine

[taterguy]

Right?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

1. Are you reading "The Hunt for Red October"?

[taterguy]

25. I read it a long time ago

That plot hole has bugged me for years.

[Turbineguy]

2. Not

a fictional one.

[taterguy]

4. A fictional Sound?

Maybe if they did a hell of a lot of dredging.

But where would they put all the sand?

[In_The_Wind]

3. Hahaha

I've navigated the Bigfoot Slough channel three decades ago.

Wrong.

[R B Garr]

5. Not if you dynamite your way in like

they did in that one movie.

[taterguy]

6. Oh FFS

It's not a question of getting in.

It's a question of hiding the sub once it's there.

Have you ever been on the fucking PAmlico Sound?

You can see the bottom in most parts of it.

It sure as hell isn't deep enough to hide a sub.

[R B Garr]

12. Okay. Well, you can paint it sand color

or river bottom mud color. Blend right in.

[taterguy]

13. River bottom mud color?

Your knowledge of rivers that feed the Pamlico is lacking.

[R B Garr]

17. True. So I Googled it, and this is what I got:

This was titled crossing Pamlico Sound,

[taterguy]

22. Put that in the Sound and you could do hurricane evacs in half an hour

Not a bad idea, except for all the reasons it's not technically feasible.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. that was then. this is now.

[taterguy]

8. What then?

It's still just as shallow as it ever was.

If anything it's got less depth, due to sediment.

[pinboy3niner]

9. You call it sediment; submariners call it camouflage.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. If anything it's got less depth, due to sediment. exactly.

who where?

[kentauros]

11. Why? Is there one missing?

[surrealAmerican]

14. Wouldn't that depend on the size of the submarine?

[pinboy3niner]

15. "Forget it, he's rolling"

[kentauros]

16. Maybe it was just a case of war nerves...

[shenmue]

18. Um, are you in one already?

Did it run aground?

[elleng]

19. Probably.

Pretty, tho.

[kwassa]

20. Is this a Hunley thread?

No Hunley threads in the Lounge.

[In_The_Wind]

23. Now you've done it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018718605

[taterguy]

26. We'll see about that.

[petronius]

21. Has anyone actually *found* a submarine in the Sound recently?

If not, then obviously it's a perfectly good hiding place for them...

[kwassa]

24. Blackbeard had a submarine.

or maybe his ship became submarine.

I forget which.